Baldwin Park apartment dwellers are set to receive some relief from large rent increases after the City Council unanimously passed a rent control measure Wednesday.
As part of the proposal, rent increases for apartments in the city will be capped at 3%, and no more than one increase will be allowed... continue reading

Supervisors approve permanent rent control in unincorporated L.A. County OCRegister
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to reinstate rent control permanently in unincorporated parts of the county Tuesday, Sept. 10, capping rent ...

Rent Control for All

Only 22 out of 482 cities in California have meaningful rent control and just cause protections. Tenants Together supports strong rent control protections for California tenants. We believe that reasonable limits on rent increases, coupled with just cause eviction protections, are a matter of basic fairness. If you don't think landlords have a right to unlimited rent increases and to evict tenants for any reason, then you believe in rent control.

Proposition 98 on the June 3, 2008, California ballot would have prohibited rent control and jeopardized just cause eviction laws. The measure was defeated by a 22-point margin, a stinging defeat for landlords who sought to use this low-turnout election to abolish rent control across the state. In 2017, a UC Berkeley poll found that 60% of Californians support rent control.

Rent control is a popular and effective policy to prevent displacement and maintain affordable homes for tenants.

On November 8th, 2016 the cities of Richmond and Mountain View won comprehensive Rent Control and Just Cause Protections through a majority vote at the ballot. The first new rent control ordinances in the U.S. in 30 years! At the same time, Oakland and Berkeley voted to expand and strengthen existing tenant protections. In 2019, Inglewood, the city of Alameda, and unincorporated LA county passed new rent control laws. These are unprecedented wins for the tenant movement. These wins demonstrate that renter power is building translocally and throughout California.